Up'ards-W.T. Best/Stanley Holloway

[ti:Up 'Ards] [ar:Stanley Holloway] [al:EMI Comedy Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Up'ards - W.T. Best/Stanley Holloway [00:09.43]Twere getting dusk one winter's night [00:12.12]When up the clough there came in sight [00:14.80]A lad who carried through the snow [00:17.58]A banner with this ere motto [00:20.37]Up'ards [00:21.80] [00:25.69]His face was glum as he did pass [00:28.51]His eyes were shiny just like glass [00:31.38]And as he went upon his way [00:33.96]He nobbut this ere word did say [00:37.12]Upards [00:38.61] [00:40.88]And people sitting down to tea [00:43.23]They heard him plan as plain can be [00:46.84]They thowt twere final football score [00:49.95]As this ere word rang out once more [00:53.13]Upards [00:57.41]A policeman on his lonely beat [01:00.10]He stopped the lad up t end of t street [01:02.99]He said Where't going wi that theer [01:06.32]The lad just whispered in his ear [01:09.59]Upards [01:13.74]Don't go down t clough the policeman said [01:16.66]It's mucky road for thee to tread [01:19.24]Canal's at bottom deep and wide [01:21.44] [01:22.27]That's not my road the lad replied [01:25.68]It's Up ards [01:27.30] [01:30.26]A young lass stopped him further up [01:33.07]She said Come in wi me and sup [01:36.67]He said I'm takin none o yon [01:39.54]Besides I must be getting on [01:41.57] [01:42.34]Upards [01:47.39]Next day some lads had just begun [01:50.27]To tak' their whippets for a run [01:53.26]When dogs got scratching in the snow [01:56.34]And found flag with this ere motto [01:59.56]Upards [02:03.49]That set them digging all around [02:06.01]And twasn't long before they found [02:09.47]A lad whose name they never learned [02:13.38]Whose face was white whose toes had turned [02:18.27]Upards [02:21.65]Twas very plain for to behold [02:24.70]The lad had ta'en his death o cold [02:27.20]He'd got his feet wet early on [02:30.04]And from his feet the cold had gone [02:33.19]Upards [02:36.55]This story only goes to show [02:40.38]That when the fields is white wi snow [02:43.97]It's inadvisable to go [02:47.63]Upards